‘Kiss Controller’ lets you tongue bowl, with a partner

For all of us who have ever wanted to kiss and bowl at the same time, the “Kiss Controller” is here.

It’s as simple as it sounds.

“Kiss Controller is an experimental project that allows users to control a bowling game by moving their tongues while kissing,” wrote inventor Hye Yeon Nam, a doctoral candidate at the Georgia Institute of Technology. “Unlike existing game input devices, Kiss Controller seeks to generate the emotional experience of a kinetic act while users play the game rather than control games with their body.”

The technical details may be a bit more off-putting: The “bowler” attaches a magnet to his or her tongue, the partner wears a headset that positions magnetic field sensors in front of his or her mouth, and tongues meet.

“As the user moves her tongue, this creates varying magnetic fields that are used to control games,” Nam wrote.

In bowling: “(T)he person who has the magnet on his/her tongue controls the direction and speed of the bowling ball for 20 seconds. The goals of this game are to guide the ball so that it maintains an average position in the center of the alley and to increase the speed of the ball by moving the tongue faster while kissing.”

But don’t go rushing out to buy a Kiss Controller. As Nam noted: “It has not yet been proposed in the game industry.”